Partner check

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The partner check is the implementation of the four-eyes principle in climbing when checking the safety of the climber.

It is usually climbed as a team of two: the climber and the belayer . The partner check serves as a mutual control of the climbing partners before starting to climb. It must be repeated before each further climbing route if and to the extent that elements of the safety chain have been removed or changed in the meantime. The parts of the safety chain that are prone to errors are checked.

Each of the partners checks the other to see whether the climbing helmet and harness are closed, correctly put on and adjusted. The climbing harness consists of a combination harness or a hip belt or a combination of chest strap , hip belt and hose strap, which connects the hip and chest strap and forms the main attachment point.

The Secure checks whether the climber with a tie-in knot correctly integrated , or whether - permitted only when Toprope the - -Klettern carabiner are diametrically opposed and screwed brought on Hauptanseilpunkt in the belt and properly inserted in the rope.

The climber checks whether the climbing rope correctly in the backup device is inserted, if the backup device is in the correct direction, and reliably joined in the intended position with the harness and that the free end of the rope was abgeknotet. When using a semi-automatic belay device, the climber also checks the locking function of the belay device by pulling on the load rope.

Checking and controlling always means that not only is checked visually, but also checked by pulling. This is to ensure that the safety chain really holds in the event of a load.

literature

  • Walter Würtl: New poster series “Climb safely!” In halls . Part 1. In: Austrian Alpine Association (Ed.): Uphill . tape 63 (133) , no. 4 . Innsbruck 2008, p. 38–39 ( alpenverein.com [PDF; accessed on November 29, 2008]).

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